Delaware State's Malcolm Williams takes a handoff and looks for a way around Hampton defender Lyndell Gibson on Saturday.

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The seniors on Delaware State's football team have heard jeers from all corners about how their team stinks, which was piled on top of the physical and emotional pain that four consecutive losing seasons brings.

But as second-year DSU coach Kermit Blount proudly likes to point out, it was these seniors that turned out to be the leaders on a team that never quit. This year's DSU team clinched the school's first winning season in football since they captured the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship in 2007.

It took a ton of heart and almost as many points to ensure that winning record as ...